Take The Knee

Take The Knee
© Surazeus
2018 05 26

During his weekly television show,
discussing the games and players of sports,
the young sportscaster lays aside stat sheets
and speaks about the recent controversy.

"The fierce game of football is nothing more
than men fighting over plump pig-skinned ball,
like two villages fighting for the herd
of pigs that roam the woods between their gates."

"Now ball players take the knee to protest
policy or injustice they dislike
and focus attention of society
on something they personally feel is wrong."

"The white male Christian Tim Tebow would kneel
to share his faith in the Bible and God
and protest the law that allows abortion,
presenting himself as the good role model."

"The black male Colin Kaepernick would kneel
or sit when the National Anthem was sung
to protest police murders of black people
and support the Black Lives Matter movement."

"So thirty-three franchise football team owners
meet to discuss these protests during the Anthem,
then vote that every team player must stand
with true respect when the Anthem is sung."

"I wonder why the owners of football teams
vote to ban acts of protest during the Anthem
when the black man protested police killings
but not when the white man protested abortions?"

Leaving the question hanging in the air,
the young sportscaster gathers his stat sheets
and signs off the broadcast, then walks away,
heart beating with fear that he lost his job.